COLE SPROUSE WAS ORIGINALLY BORN IN HAWKINS, INDIANA. WHEN HE WAS 6, HIS FAMILY TOOK A VACATION TO ENGLAND. HE WAS SEPERATED FROM HIS FAMILY DURING THEIR STOP AT A FAIR. HE TRIED SO HARD TO FIND THEM BUT IT WAS LIKE THEY VANISHED IN THIN AIR. A TALL MAN WITH CHESTNUT COLORED HAIR LOOMED ABOVE HIM.

"cAN I HELP YOU YOUNG MAN?" HE ASKED.

"i CAN'T FIND MY MOMMY AND MY DAD.."

"cOME WITH ME, WE'LL FIND THEM TOGETHER"

cOLE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WOULDN'T BE SEEING HIS PARENTS FOR YEARS TO COME.

tHE TALL MAN PUT A PIECE OF CHLOROFORM SOAKED MATERIAL AROUND cOLE'S MOUTH AND NOSE AND BLACKNESS TOOK OVER.

tHE NEXT THING HE REMEMBERS IS WAKING UP IN A COLD, DARK ROOM.  sTRANGE VOICES SPOKE OUTSIDE THE DOOR, BUT HE COULDN'T RECOGNIZE THE LANGUANGE. iT SOUNDED ANGRY. SCARY.

fOR THE NEXT 13 YEARS OF HIS LIFE cOLE WAS SUBJECTED TO ALL SORTS OF TORTURE AND EXPERIMENTATION. sHOCK TREATMENT, DROWNING, SENSORY DEPRIVATION TANKS. NUMEROUS CHEMICALS BEING INJECTED INTO HIS BODY.

hE LEARNED THAT THE PEOPLE THAT  CAPTURED HIM WERE RUSSIANS. THEY WERE TRYING TO BUILD AN ARMY OF PEOPLE WITH AMAZING POWERS. THE AMERICANS WERE DOING IT SO THEY NEEDED TO HURRY AND GET CAUGHT UP. THEY NEEDED TO BE FIRST. THEY TATTOOED THE NUMBER "22" ON cOLE'S WRIST. HE WAS ONE OF 85 PEOPLE THAT THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING ON. MOST PEOPLE DIED DURING THE EXPERIMENTS. NO ONE HAD GAINED POWERS. UNTIL NOW.

tHEY HAD THROWN COLE INTO A DEEP SWIMMING POOL WITH WEIGHTS WRAPPED AROUND HIS ANKLES SO HE WOULD SINK INSTEAD OF FLOAT. he somehow managed to survive by manipulating the thoughts of the person who threw him in. "Let me go...now" it somehow worked. by projecting his thoughts into the man's head, he was able to make the man release him. the man was in a zombie like trance, but only long enough to get the weights off of cole's legs. Cole struggled to his feet and tried his best to escape the guards. but they were gaining on him. he ran through the lower level of the lab until he ran into the room where they were trying to open this gate? this gate that they said the americans had opened in the united states? he vaguely remembered hearing them talk about it. the guards were catching up to him. he tripped backwards and fell into this squishy wall? and then he vanished from the russian's view.

He ended up in a strange old building. it was empty. abandoned, he assumed. He wandered the building for what seemed like hours until he reached an exit. "hawkins energy" "how did i end up in hawkins? I havent been here since i was a child"

long story short because im tired of writing; cole ends up going to his childhood hoome to find his parents. they tell him they had been searching for him since he went missing as a child and etc etc they ask where he's been and he just says "he doesn't know".

He eventually becomes a lifeguard. mainly to practice his telepathy and to see how long he can hold his breath under water after pool hours are over.